German phone repair and insurance firm goes bankrupt after paying €200,000 to ransomware hackers despite reported revenue of 70 million

Despite tens of millions of revenue, a $230,000 ransomware fee has seemingly taken out one of Germany’s leading insurance firms. As reported by Wa.de and Golem.de (via our friends at Tom’s Hardware), Einhaus Group was originally targeted back in 2023. Hacking group Royal reportedly told Einhaus Group founder Wilhelm Einhaus, “We’ve hacked you. All further…

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After 10 years, there’s a functioning Metal Gear Solid 5 co-op mod so you and a friend can be played like a damn fiddle together

For my money, Metal Gear Solid 5 remains the watermark for open world action games thanks to its excellent espionage toybox, its mercenary company management systems, and the timeless satisfaction of abducting enemy combatants with a little balloon. 10 years after its launch, it just got even better thanks to Dynamite, a functioning two-player MGS5…

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Indie horror game rejected by Steam releases for free instead: ‘This is our response to being censored, and our rejection of the idea that horror can be defined as acceptable or not’

Indie horror game Vile: Exhumed launched today as a free donationware game under a Creative Commons license, following the cancellation of its planned release on Steam in July, reportedly over the presence of “sexual content with depictions of real people.” Vile: Exhumed had been listed on Steam, and was slated for release on July 22—the…

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